Adrian Blake Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Richmond, England, United Kingdom

Managed, refurbished and rationalised a portfolio of residential properties

London, UK

• Led business planning activities for BP’s “Reservoir Development” Upstream division
• Advised leadership on key financial insights to support value-driven decision-making on activity planning and strategic direction
• Project manager for a Finance transformation project that sought to provide proof of concept for the automation of forecasting across subsurface in BP

• Lead business planning activities for BP’s “Exploration” Upstream division, encompassing managing global consolidation of 10 countries (plans, actuals & forecasts)
• Re-designed and substantially expanded BP Exploration’s financial reporting capability using Power BI, to provide greater financial and non-financial insights, and in doing so, support the leadership team in maximising.
• Led financialisation of various cost challenges / major restructuring initiatives, including scenario impact assessments to model feasibility of different activity and staff resourcing approaches.

• Lead planning analyst for BP’s Upstream centralised technology and Business Development organisations
• Led UK “Above Regions” business planning working group, serving to embed BP’s Upstream Finance digital transformation agenda
• Led re-design and standardisation of various budgeting and forecasting processes, including process flow re-mappings, agreeing common data sets and designing a set of Excel-based standardised budget modelling tools for.

Progressed through a range of performance and accounting roles within BP’s technology, trading and IT divisions.